Best Road Less Traveled Poems

After our not so delicious meal, we started home
He turned onto our usual well-worn road
Headed west where we bumped across raised railroad tracks
There at the...

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Forgiveness, The Road Less Traveled
By: Miracle man 
2/28/2020

In each life, painful things are bound to occur,
and fires of revenge, from our thoughts, oft emerge.
Our lives...

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A POEM MADE UP OF CLICHES

At Poetry Soup we're admonished
Never to use cliches
They provide us an extensive list
For the error of our ways

But one thing...

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Raindrops
are like my thoughts
falling down into my mind
sending goose bumps down
my spine

Their cool aftermath
cleanses me of my thoughts
of fear and uncertainty 
about what tomorrows
pain may...

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Sunshine streamed in through 
the windows on a slant.

As she flipped long curly 
red locks off her shoulder.

She took the other road
most often. 

The road...

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Never give up before you think that you might be giving in.
Something must be said for the beauty of a day
Life is the unfoldings of...

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Whispers of the past, like shadows fade,
In the heart’s light, grievances unmade.
Forgiveness, a quiet balm, gently applied,
Healing the wounds where grudges once lied.

Echoes of the...

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Yesterday sent its regards in a farewell
letter, 
A gesture of fate intact, sealed for the 
departed,
Or better yet, the progressive harmonies
of God, such as we...

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They wouldn’t let me be White 
Oh I wanted to be 
Dreams of that Pulitzer haunted me 

They said, Sir, you have ten minutes to...

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"I shall be telling this with a sigh" 
    Robert Frost, The Road Less Traveled. 

Mom
took me
to try on
my first pair of...

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Un-Ringing the Bells


To live in the shadow of the steeples
the tintinnabulation of Poe’s bells*
tormenting the sinners as they slumber
wrestling the darkened dreams of childhood hells

following...

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Listen to the sonorous tones 
of silence secluded in sighs,
Blind to every sight of reality,
with kaleidoscope vision and spider 
eyes.
Revisions perfected the proper 
cocktail
for soaring...

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She folded, quit, shut down, bled out
In a horrible, end-of-life way.
With pills
And lots of them

Never fulfilling her dreams, 
Never finding her hopes.
Never traveling the road...

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Jesus Is The Only Way to Heaven!

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
As people travel from all kinds of directions.

The directions for some...

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For Linda-Marie's "Journey Back In Time.'  Style: Nonet


In youth the road less traveled called me;
fame and money held no allure.
There were mountains to conquer,...

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